DiploNovel #327 - Enter the Spirit World
#327 - Enter the Spirit World
Chapter 325: Entering the Spiritual World
Zhang Chen felt as if a primordial chaos had appeared within his dantian. In that void and chaos, a bolt of lightning suddenly burst forth, cleaving through yin and yang in an instant, and a spark of spiritual light was conceived from within.
Then, Zhang Chen's Five-Colored Divine Light skill suddenly transformed into a ball of colorful light, falling into that spark of spiritual light, merging with it into one, rolling incessantly and constantly trembling.
"So, the so-called Mysterious Pass One Aperture is not an acupoint in the physical body, but an acupoint existing within the soul. This acupoint is a miraculous aperture, which can also be called the Mysterious Female Gate, the foundation for Qi Refiners to comprehend the laws of heaven and earth." Zhang Chen looked at the aperture opened in his soul, a thoughtful expression on his face.
The Mysterious Pass One Aperture is mysterious and wondrous, the foundation for humans to communicate with heaven and earth.
"Interesting!" Zhang Chen muttered to himself.
"With this, my Qi Refining Technique's second realm is successfully cultivated. If all my divine abilities are blessed by mana, they can be amplified twofold." Zhang Chen stood in place, lost in thought.
Mana can not only provide energy for skills but also amplify one's own skills.
"But what exactly is the Mysterious Pass One Aperture? I can't quite explain it, as if something is being nurtured within it." Although Zhang Chen had opened the Mysterious Pass One Aperture, he couldn't say what it was.
"Perhaps it would be more appropriate to describe the Mysterious Pass One Aperture as a spiritual root, or to call it a seed of immortality." Zhang Chen said thoughtfully.
"Forget it. Now that the second realm of Qi Refining has been cultivated, it's time to explore the spiritual world. If I can find the foundation of the legendary Buzhou Mountain and refine it into the Mountain-Moving Technique, I will have a proper means of attack when facing enemies in the future." Thinking of this, Zhang Chen instructed Xiaodouding and then transformed into mist and flew away.
Zhang Chen flew along as a cloud of mist, while also pondering about his niece, wondering how she was doing in the first heaven of the spiritual world. However, now that the space passage had been successfully opened, it meant that his niece had succeeded in her cultivation.
He wanted to enter the spiritual world through the Void of Samadhi to search for his niece, but when he thought of the big black dog nearby, Zhang Chen thought about it and gave up.
How vast was the spiritual world? The probability of finding his niece through Samadhi was less than one in ten thousand, but the probability of being found by that hateful big black dog was one hundred percent.
Zhang Chen wished he could stay far away from that big black dog and never meet that beast again.
"Huh? Why are there so many people?" Zhang Chen rushed to the black hole and saw a sea of people in front of the space passage from afar.
At a glance, there were probably hundreds of thousands of people gathered, a dense mass of heads moving about.
In that crowd, there were tens of thousands of the Pingbian Prince's army, as well as ten thousand experts from the Northern Inspection Department, and further away, experts from various major families, forming small groups of dozens of people, each clearly separated around the mountain.
"There are really a lot of people coming to join in the fun." Zhang Chen lowered his figure, turned his clothes inside out, and dirtied his face with mud, dressing like an ordinary person. Then, he watched the bustling crowd and blended in unnoticed, hearing shouts coming from afar:
"The Li family of Hedong is recruiting warriors to explore the secret realm. A trip inside will yield a thousand taels of silver."
"The Wang family of North China is recruiting villagers to explore the secret realm, offering fifteen hundred taels of silver."
"Team up! Team up to explore the secret realm! Experts above Hwajin, come quickly!"
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Shouts rang out, as if it were a market, constantly spreading in the air. Zhang Chen looked at the various groups energetically shouting and recruiting people, and for a moment, he almost thought he had returned to the era of playing online games in his previous life.
"Young Master Zhang, why are you here too?" Just as Zhang Chen was secretly spying, a voice suddenly came from beside him, and Huang Chao appeared behind Zhang Chen at some point.
"I've already disguised myself. Can you still recognize me?" Zhang Chen was stunned when he saw Huang Chao.
"Young Master, you've forgotten my abilities. I can transform in countless ways and see through a person's origin." Huang Chao smiled and leaned forward.
Hearing this, Zhang Chen looked Huang Chao up and down, seeing that Huang Chao's condition seemed to be good, seemingly unaffected by the Curse Demon God, but he didn't delve too deeply and instead asked, "What's the situation now?"
"The Pingbian Prince's Mansion is recruiting one hundred thousand laborers to enter the secret realm to explore. The other major forces have come from afar and don't have the authority to conscript laborers, so they simply spend a lot of money to hire commoners and hunters to explore the secret realm. I also heard the news, so I took the opportunity to rush here," Huang Chao said.
Zhang Chen glanced at Huang Chao. This kid has mastered the art of transformation, and entering the spiritual world will definitely be of great use.
As for whether Huang Chao can use his divine abilities in the spiritual world?
That Curse Demon God is an extremely ancient god. Even the Imperial Daughter can use her divine abilities in the spiritual world, so of course, the Curse Demon God has no problem.
"Team up?" Huang Chao looked at Zhang Chen with anticipation in his eyes.
Hearing this, Zhang Chen shook his head: "I still have important things to do in the world on the other side. It's not suitable for me to team up with others."
Hearing this, Huang Chao shook his head, his eyes full of regret.
Zhang Chen looked at the dark black hole entrance and asked, "How do we get in?"
"Just swagger in. This entrance is shared by all living beings in the world. Who dares to set a threshold here? They must be tired of living!" Huang Chao smiled and said, "Even the Pingbian Prince's Mansion wouldn't dare to monopolize this entrance."
"I see." Zhang Chen suddenly understood.
"However, it's not peaceful inside now. A few days ago, an ordinary commoner ate some kind of fruit inside and mastered the power of thunder and fire. After walking out of that passage, it immediately alarmed the major forces. So, in order to compete for the fruits inside, the major forces constantly dispatched direct descendants to enter. I heard that more than a dozen big shots have already died inside," Huang Chao said beside Zhang Chen.
Zhang Chen was shocked to hear this. Nobles died? This is no small matter, which shows how fierce the battle inside is. I just don't know how Xie Lingyun is doing.
However, thinking that Xie Lingyun has the protection of the experts from the Inspection Department, as long as she doesn't run into the native creatures inside, she shouldn't encounter any crisis.
"Let's go in and take a look." Zhang Chen took the lead and disappeared into the crowd, walking towards the space passage.
No one blocked the way along the way. Only the stewards of the major forces stood in front of the space passage, looking expectantly at the space passage, as if waiting for something.
Just as Zhang Chen came to the space passage, a steward came up to Zhang Chen and said, "This brother, I am the steward of the Niu family of Shangjing. No matter what you get from the immortal world on the other side, even if you take out a blade of grass, you can come to me to sell it, and I will definitely give you a satisfactory price."
Before the steward could finish speaking, someone interrupted, "You Niu family are so stingy, offering so little. How dare you come here to buy things? This young brother, I am from the Huainan Li family. If you obtain anything in the other world, feel free to sell it to me. I'll definitely give you a good price."
"What level is your Huainan Li family at? How dare you come here and embarrass yourselves? Young brother, I am from the Longnan Zhao family..."
A group of people crowded around Zhang Chen, introducing themselves incessantly, giving Zhang Chen a headache. He quickly pushed them away and headed towards the spatial passage.
What does it feel like to enter a spatial passage?
It doesn't seem to feel like anything at all. It's just an ordinary step, and then the scenery suddenly changes. It's just a change of scenery, nothing else.
What entered his eyes was a primeval forest, lush and green, no different from when Zhang Chen entered the mental world from meditation.
At this time, there was no one in front of the spatial passage. Zhang Chen stood there, looking at the majestic mountains and ridges in front of him. After a slight sense, he found that his own mana was running smoothly and could still be mobilized, and he was relieved.
"This meditative world has no effect on me." Zhang Chen breathed a sigh of relief, and then, in the next moment, transformed into a bat, flapped his wings and flew into the gray sky, ultrasonic waves constantly spreading.
He knew that this was the mental world, a primeval jungle. People from the material world who came here were all mortals and could not go too far.
As the ultrasonic waves echoed between the mountains, Zhang Chen indeed felt something. In the dense forest ten miles away, thousands of figures were gathered together, and those thousands of figures were fighting each other.
Zhang Chen flapped his wings and flew all the way. From afar, he saw thousands of people fighting around an apricot tree.
The apricot tree was tall, more than ten meters high, and the crown of the entire apricot tree spread out, covering an area of more than thirty meters.
The apricot tree shimmered with a mysterious purple luster, like streaks of purple mist, flowing between the branches, and between the branches and leaves of the tree, there were more than a dozen crimson, fist-sized apricots, shimmering with mysterious and unpredictable luster.
At this time, blood flowed like a river in the dense forest, and countless figures were constantly fighting, looking very bloody.
Zhang Chen transformed into a vampire bat, stopped in the branches of a big tree, and looked at the battlefield from afar. He saw that the ground was already covered with corpses, and I'm afraid tens of thousands of people had died tragically here.
"It's really a bit interesting. Those fighting people include Jianghu experts, as well as soldiers conscripted from the Pingbian Royal Mansion. At this time, they are fighting each other without leaving any room." Zhang Chen looked at the battlefield from afar, thoughtfully looking at the strange apricot tree in the center.
Zhang Chen did not act rashly, but transformed into his original appearance, and then cast an invisibility spell, hid himself, and then ran towards the apricot tree.
"I have a question in my heart. Since the Pingbian Royal Mansion outside knows that there is a magical apricot tree here, why not directly send an army of 100,000 to compete for it?" Zhang Chen was a little puzzled.
"Kid, don't be careless, this place is not simple!"
At this moment, the Great自在天魔 appeared on Zhang Chen's shoulder, his eyes looking at the apricot tree, revealing a strange look in his eyes.
"What do you mean?" Zhang Chen asked curiously.
"Such a divine object, how come there are no alien beasts guarding it? I think the reason why those people are blindly fighting is probably not because they are taking the initiative." At this moment, the Great自在天魔 said.
"What do you mean by that?" Zhang Chen asked.
"Look carefully at the corpses and blood on the ground," said the Great自在天魔.
Zhang Chen heard the words and lowered his head to look at the corpses and blood at his feet, but did not notice anything unusual, so he turned his head to look at the Great自在天魔, his eyes full of incomprehension.
"Don't worry, look carefully," said the Great自在天魔.
Zhang Chen heard the words and lowered his head to look carefully, but still did not find anything. However, Zhang Chen did not ask any questions, but continued to watch the corpses and blood at his feet. After a while, suddenly a certain corpse disappeared out of thin air under Zhang Chen's eyes, and the blood on the ground also disappeared without a trace.
"What?" Zhang Chen suspected that he was seeing things, and couldn't help rubbing his eyes, shifting his target to look at another corpse, and then before long, another corpse disappeared out of thin air, and the blood on the ground also disappeared without a trace.
"How could this be?" Zhang Chen felt a little creepy. If the Great自在天魔 hadn't pointed it out, he would have really found it difficult to detect the abnormality.
"This fruit tree is eating people," said the Great自在天魔 slowly: "Kid, run away quickly, that fruit tree is not something you can deal with."
"Look at those soldiers and Jianghu people, they are already bloodthirsty and don't even know why they are killing. They are just killing instinctively and inexplicably. Their minds have long been lost and completely turned into killing machines." The Great自在天魔 pointed to the killing in the distance and said: "All the dead people have become nutrients for the fruit tree and are absorbed by the fruit tree."
"What means have those people been subjected to?" Zhang Chen asked: "What is the origin of that fruit tree?"
"Fruit tree? Where is the fruit tree? That is clearly a dead Bashe," said the Great自在天魔.
"Dead Bashe? That is clearly an apricot tree? Look, there are red fruits on it." Zhang Chen couldn't believe the words of the Great自在天魔.
The Great自在天魔 shook his head: "Kid, look with your Devouring Eye! Your golden light has been blinded!"
Zhang Chen heard the words and activated the Devouring skill in his body, and looked at the apricot tree with his eyes, and then in the next moment, he couldn't help but be shocked, scaring his body to tremble.
In his Devouring Eye, what kind of big tree was that?
The big tree pattern he saw was clearly a very big snake. After coiling there, the camouflage pattern composed of colorful scales on his body looked like a lifelike big tree, but in reality it was a pattern on the Bashe's body, which looked very much like an apricot tree.
The Bashe's body exuded a mysterious wave, and that mysterious wave could affect people's perception, so it would make people look like they saw an apricot tree at first glance.
At this time, a black gas emanated from the Bashe's body, passing through the crowd and constantly entering everyone's body, confusing everyone's minds.
"What are those red apricots?" Zhang Chen's eyes fell on the red apricots. Those apricots were indeed apricots, and there was no way to fake them.
"Snake eggs!" The Great自在天魔 said slowly: "And they are still living snake eggs."